Notes on my son and me (genetic testing)

[Guest guest]

We are getting our three kids (and ourselves!) ready for the new

school year. My four-year-old, who has a tentative mito diagnosis,

is entering kindergarten (private, not public) in September. Right

now, we'll probably pay for a speech therapist once per week to visit

him there, but we may increase it to more visits.

He is also still enrolled in his public special ed preschool class,

and I'm checking with his Child Study team to see if they will

provide any help for him (doubt it) since he's leaving that program.

Maybe those of you who have worked with special kids can tell me if

the public school Child Study Team has any role for children who

attend private school.

Regarding myself, I don't know if I posted this but I have an

appointment with Dr. K's partner at the end of September. I also

just got back my genetic testing results from Horizon. There are no

significant defects in the mtDNA (a few meaningless ones, normal is

what it says). I pored over the results, and as far as I can tell,

there was no nDNA sequencing done. Does anyone know if Horizon does

nDNA sequencing too? I vaguely remember that it's much more

complicated, so I don't recall if they do it. I had been told in the

past that I most likely have a nDNA defect, not a mtDNA defect.

Take care,

RH